Audio AI Research Scientist (Audio Source Separation)

Location: Remote roles available in the United States, Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom; primary work location in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

Salary: $165,400–$227,500 annual hiring range for the primary Framingham work location; ranges may vary by location

Company

hirify.global Corporation develops audio technology and premium sound experiences across multiple global business units.

What you will do

• Research, prototype, train, and evaluate source separation and target extraction algorithms for speech and real-world sounds.
• Develop single- and multi-microphone approaches using spatial cues and optional auxiliary sensors.
• Investigate separation under overlapping talkers, noise, reverberation, and motion.
• Evaluate perceptual quality, separation performance, generalization, latency, memory, and computational requirements.
• Collaborate with DSP and embedded software teams to deploy models in real-time demonstrations and product platforms, and contribute to patents and conference papers.

Requirements

• Graduate degree (MS or PhD) in machine learning, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent research experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with audio source separation, target sound extraction, speech enhancement, or related neural audio processing.
• Strong knowledge of audio DSP, time-frequency methods, and microphone array or spatial signal processing.
• Experience training and evaluating audio models in PyTorch.
• Ability to tackle complex, open-ended problems through experimentation and iteration.
• Understanding of objective and perceptual evaluation methods and real-time, low-power inference tradeoffs.
• Strong communication skills.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with C/C++.
• Experience with multimodal or sensor-conditioned separation, ONNX/TFLite, or embedded deployment.
• Publications at ICASSP, Interspeech, NeurIPS, or similar conferences.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role within an independent, customer-focused company driven by innovation and audio technology.
• Competitive base pay with bonus programs and compensation tailored to skills, experience, education, and location.
• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits and a 401(k) plan.
• Exclusive wellbeing perks and an employee discount on hirify.global products and experiences.